Privatization, Ownership Structure, and Bank Risk Taking: the Case of Commercial Banks in China

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10.2991/icssr-13.2013.25How to use a DOI?

Keywords

total risk; bank-specific risk; systematic risk; bank privatization

Abstract

After opening financial market for foreign institutions, commercial banks in China have been encountered foreign and domestic competition seriously. The results of this study are that bank assets have a significantly negative relationship with total risk and bank-specific risk, whereas non-director shareholdings and non-performing loans has a significantly positive relation with total risk and bank-specific risk. Secondly, growth rate of GDP has positive relation with systematic risk. Other factors have no significant relation with bank risks.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shun-Ho Chu
AU  - Haitian Chen
AU  - Shuo Yan
PY  - 2013/07
DA  - 2013/07
TI  - Privatization, Ownership Structure, and Bank Risk Taking: the Case of Commercial Banks in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Science and Social Research (ICSSR 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 109
EP  - 113
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icssr-13.2013.25
DO  - 10.2991/icssr-13.2013.25
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